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Publication date: 1 October 2006

Donatella Castelli

The purpose of this article is to introduce the digital libraries of the future, their enabling technologies and their organisational models.

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Purpose

The purpose of this article is to introduce the digital libraries of the future, their enabling technologies and their organisational models.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper first discusses the requirements for the digital libraries of the future, then presents the DILIGENT infrastructure as a technological response to these requirements and, finally, it discusses the role that libraries can play in the organisational framework envisioned by DILIGENT.

Findings

Digital libraries of the future will give access to a large variety of multimedia and multi‐type documents created by integrating content from many different heterogeneous sources that range from repositories of text, images, and audio‐video, to scientific data archives, and databases. The digital library will provide a seamless environment where the co‐operative access, filtering, manipulation, generation, and preservation of these documents will be supported as a continuous cycle. Users of the library will be both consumers and producers of information, either by themselves or in collaborations with other users. Policy ensuring mechanisms will guarantee that the information produced is visible only to those who have the appropriate rights to access it. The realisation of these new digital libraries requires both the provision of a new technology and a change in the role played by the libraries in the information access‐production cycle.

Practical implications

Digital libraries of the future will be core instruments for serving a large class of applications, especially in the research field.

Originality/value

The paper briefly introduces one of the most innovative technologies for digital libraries, and it discusses how it contributes to the realisation of a novel digital libraries scenario.

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Library Hi Tech, vol. 24 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0737-8831

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Publication date: 27 August 2014

Paolo Manghi, Michele Artini, Claudio Atzori, Alessia Bardi, Andrea Mannocci, Sandro La Bruzzo, Leonardo Candela, Donatella Castelli and Pasquale Pagano

The purpose of this paper is to present the architectural principles and the services of the D-NET software toolkit. D-NET is a framework where designers and developers find the…

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The purpose of this paper is to present the architectural principles and the services of the D-NET software toolkit. D-NET is a framework where designers and developers find the tools for constructing and operating aggregative infrastructures (systems for aggregating data sources with heterogeneous data models and technologies) in a cost-effective way. Designers and developers can select from a variety of D-NET data management services, can configure them to handle data according to given data models, and can construct autonomic workflows to obtain personalized aggregative infrastructures.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper provides a definition of aggregative infrastructures, sketching architecture, and components, as inspired by real-case examples. It then describes the limits of current solutions, which find their lacks in the realization and maintenance costs of such complex software. Finally, it proposes D-NET as an optimal solution for designers and developers willing to realize aggregative infrastructures. The D-NET architecture and services are presented, drawing a parallel with the ones of aggregative infrastructures. Finally, real-cases of D-NET are presented, to show-case the statement above.

Findings

The D-NET software toolkit is a general-purpose service-oriented framework where designers can construct customized, robust, scalable, autonomic aggregative infrastructures in a cost-effective way. D-NET is today adopted by several EC projects, national consortia and communities to create customized infrastructures under diverse application domains, and other organizations are enquiring for or are experimenting its adoption. Its customizability and extendibility make D-NET a suitable candidate for creating aggregative infrastructures mediating between different scientific domains and therefore supporting multi-disciplinary research.

Originality/value

D-NET is the first general-purpose framework of this kind. Other solutions are available in the literature but focus on specific use-cases and therefore suffer from the limited re-use in different contexts. Due to its maturity, D-NET can also be used by third-party organizations, not necessarily involved in the software design and maintenance.

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Program, vol. 48 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0033-0337

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Publication date: 12 June 2009

Leonardo Candela, Donatella Castelli and Pasquale Pagano

The aim of this paper is to discuss how new technologies for supporting scientific research will possibly influence the librarians' work.

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Purpose

The aim of this paper is to discuss how new technologies for supporting scientific research will possibly influence the librarians' work.

Design/methodology/approach

The discussion is conducted in a context that takes into account the emergence of e‐infrastructures as means to realise a new model of producing, using and sharing information resources and even to change the concept of information resource itself. At the core of this innovation there are virtual research environments, i.e. evolved versions of the current “research libraries”.

Findings

The environments provide scientists with collaborative and customised environments supporting results production and exchange around the globe in a cost‐efficient manner. The experiences made with these innovative research environments within the D4Science project is reported.

Originality/value

On the basis of this experience, possible professional profiles are suggested for librarians working in these new evolved “research libraries”.

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Library Hi Tech, vol. 27 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0737-8831

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Publication date: 11 September 2007

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Library Hi Tech, vol. 25 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0737-8831

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Publication date: 1 April 2006

Almuth Gastinger

To share with readers the issues of an international conference.Design/methodology/approach – A brief review of the conference held in Germany, 7‐9 February 2006.

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To share with readers the issues of an international conference.Design/methodology/approach – A brief review of the conference held in Germany, 7‐9 February 2006.

Findings

The conference focused on the future of information services in the digital world. Speakers from eight countries discussed joint strategies and transnational networks for academic libraries, innovative information services, and future challenges for academic libraries. Three hands‐on workshops reported on current projects in the fields of long‐term archiving, institutional repositories and marketing approaches in the library context.

Originality/value

Will be of interest to library and information professionals.

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Library Hi Tech News, vol. 23 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0741-9058

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Publication date: 1 October 2006

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Library Hi Tech, vol. 24 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0737-8831

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Publication date: 2 March 2012

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Library Hi Tech News, vol. 29 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0741-9058

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